"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on."
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"I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering."
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"A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions."
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"Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing."
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"The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men."
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"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
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"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."
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"To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love."
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"When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."
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"But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy."
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"Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy."
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"It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel."
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"For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement."
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"The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!"
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"Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened."
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"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most."
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"One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are"
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"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage."
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